The classroom buzzed with chatter, but it was just noise to her. She looked at the test paper. The words were there, on the page, but they held no meaning. It was like trying to decipher a foreign language. The questions seemed utterly nonsensical. Her classmates' faces were blurred. She tried to focus, but her eyes wandered to the window.

She felt a hand on her shoulder, a voice whispering, "Are you feeling okay?" Her brow furrowed. She slowly shook her head, unable to speak, the weight of the moment pressing down on her.

Emotion: disoriented

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion
PC1 (Valence): -2.65 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -1.34

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion disoriented. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 disoriented stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the disoriented emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the disoriented vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
unfamiliar0.340
ness0.321
失去了0.316
не0.315
будто0.311
Suppressed:
B-0.474
la-0.419
K-0.409
de-0.309
brag-0.302